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David Francis Urrows AMERICAN CHORAL REVIEW DAVID FRANCIS URROWS THE CHORAL MUSIC OF CHRISTOPHER LE FLEMING JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHORAL FOUNDATION, INC. VOLUME XXVIII • NUMBER 3 • JULY, 1986 AMERICAN CHORAL REVIEW ALFRED MANN, Editor ALFREDA HAYS, Assistant Editor Associate Editors EDWARD TATNALL CANBY ANDREW C. MINOR RICHARD jACKSON MARTIN PICKER WESLEY S. COFFMAN The AMERICAN CHORAL REVIEW is published quarterly as the official journal of The American Choral Foundation, Inc. The Foundation also publishes a supplementary Research Memorandum Series. Membership in The American Choral Foundation is available for an annual contribution of $27.50 and includes subscriptions to the AMERICAN CHORAL REVIEW and the Research Memorandum Series and use of the Foundation's advisory services. All contributions are tax deductible. Multiple back issues of the AMERICAN CHORAL REVIEW and Research Memorandum Series are housed and maintained at the Temple University Boyer College of Music, Philadelphia, Department of Choral Activities, Alan Harler, Chairman. A computerized, annotated listing of the contents of back issues by author, title, subject, and period has been assembled as a joint project of Temple University and the American Choral Foundation. Back issues of the AMERICAN CHORAL REVIEW are available to members at $5.00; back issues of the Research Memorandum Series at $2.00. Bulk prices will be quoted on request. Through affiliation with the American Choral Directors Association the Foundation offers membership to American Choral Directors Association members at a reduced contribution amount. Please consult the boxed announcement on the inside back cover for details. THE AMERICAN CHORAL FOUNDATION, INC. Administered by the Association of Professional Vocal Ensembles Janice F. Kestler, Executive Director 251 South 18th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 (215) 545-4444 Material for publication should be submitted in duplicate. All typescripts should be double-spaced and have ample margins. Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the pages to which they refer. Music examples should preferably appear on separate sheets. Copyright 1986 by THE AMERICAN CHORAL FOUNDATION, INC. Indexed in Music INDEx and Music ARTICLE GUIDE Third-class Postage Paid- Philadelphia and additional mailing offices Postmaster: Send address changes to American Choral Review, 251 South 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 ISSN 0002-7898 DAVID FRANCIS URROWS THE CHORAL MUSIC OF CHRISTOPHER LE FLEMING Published as a special issue of the AMERICAN CHORAL REVIEW Volume XXVIII, Number 3 1986 Christopher le Fleming 1908-1985 Portrait by Rupert Shephard We are apt to look on art and on music especially as a commodity ... but music is something more-it is a spiritual necessity. The art of music ... is the expression of the soul of a nation, and by a nation I mean not necessarily aggregations of people, artificially divided from each other by political frontiers or economic barriers. What I mean is any community of people who are spiritually bound together by language, environment, history, and common ideals and, above all, a continuity with the past. 1 Five years before Ralph Vaughan Williams penned this wonderfully unequivocable statement for the Mary Flexner Lectures on the Humanities given at Bryn Mawr College in the fall of 1932, a young English composer sought him out at Worcester, England, and asked him to sign a photograph. The friendship, thus begun and "kept in repair" for thirty years until Vaughan Williams's death, gave the young Christopher le Fleming a close connection, not only with the man, but with the fomenting sentiments that so charged his generation. Perhaps even more than some of the illustrious British composers of his years-Walton, Lambert, Rubbra, Britten, Tip­ pett, and Berkeley-he, in the scope and direction of his work, and particularly in his choral music, kept those ideals of a healthy nationalism and maintained a continuity with the past. His achievement in this respect, which involved overcoming a not inconsiderable handicap and lack of fortuitous guidance in his youth, deserves attention and some critical appraisal as his career comes to a close. Christopher (Kaye) le Fleming was born at Wimborne Minster, Dorset, on the 26th of February, 1908, or "towards the end of Edward VII's reign" as he puts it in the delightfully fluent narrative of his autobiography 2 His father was a country doctor and his mother was a fair amateur pianist who had some Chopin, Schumann, Grieg, and the easier Beethoven and Schubert within her technique. But Sullivan was then considered a paradigm of "fine" music, and this is what the young le Fleming set out to master by ear on his parents' Broadwood grand. In a (then) largely pre-mechanized farming country he grew up amidst the sound of the anvil at the forge, horses, and the Minster chimes which at Wimborne date to at least the beginning of the thirteenth century. For le Fleming, the aural recollections took on a particular importance since he was born with defective eyesight which for many years precluded his receiving a fully professional musical education. As a boy, he sang in the Minster choir, and was on hand when Canon Edmund Fellowes, in preparing his monumental edition of Tudor Church 1Vaughan Williams, R., National Music (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 68. 2Le Fleming, C., journey into Music (By the Slow Train) (Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 1982). 4 AMERICAN CHORAL REVIEW music, discovered missing parts to works of Byrd and other Renaissance masters in a chest in the Minster's Chained Library. Many years later it was le Fleming who was instrumental in having Fellowes elected, though belatedly and at the end of his life, to the Incorporated Society of Musicians. He first studied violin and cello, but had to abandon these as he was unable to read music at a distance. Thus at school he turned to the piano, with a view to a concert career. He also studied at the Brighton School of Music (piano and organ), hoping later to enter the Royal College of Music. He was forbidden, however, to apply for admission by the eye specialist in whose care his parents had placed him. Having become friendly with Sir Dan Godfrey, he played the Schumann A-Minor Concerto under him with the Bournemouth Orchestra. He turned his energies shortly after this to writing songs, and in 1929 his first published work, Cradle Song for Christmas-, was issued by Oxford University Press. He recalls: "I was ofl"ered either£ 5 [$25.00] or a 5% royalty on a copy costing about fourpence [or two-fifths of a cent per copy]. Perennially hard up, I chose the£ 5."3 Le Fleming had met Vaughan Williams two years earlier and had avidly attended the English choir festivals, then perhaps a little past their heyday. He studied with Vaughan Williams on an informal basis, intro­ duced him to a remarkable Dorset folk singer, William Miles, from who were obtained some uncollected verses for "The Dark-eyed Sailor," among other folksongs; and when, in 1945, le Fleming became Assistant Director of the Rural Music Schools Association, he was the moving force in getting Vaughan Williams to write a work for string players of all abilities-the Concerto Grosso. He studied at the Royal School of Church Music, under Sir Sydney Nicholson, in its first years of existence. He also studied piano with George Reeves and played recitals in London (Wigmore Hall) and Bournemouth. In 1932 he married and moved to South bourne and afterwards to Fisherton de Ia Mere. In the winter of 1938-39 he went to Zi.irich to see Dr. Vogt, the renowned eye specialist who counted Eamon de Valera and Mussolini among his patients. Vogt was of little help, but in the mid-1940's another eye specialist, Anthony Palin, of Bristol, was able to effect some substantial and long-term improvements in le Fleming's eyesight. During the Second World War he served with the Observer Corps and was later drafted into the Royal Army Medical Corps. After some period in boot camp, he was discharged-after an eye examination! Soon afterwards, in 1943, he was appointed Director of St. Mary's School, Caine, and later, Director of the Wiltshire Rural Music School. In 1946, a year after becoming Assistant Director of the Rural Music Schools Association, he became editor of 3/bid., p. 42. July, 1986 5 Making Music, a journal published by the Association, 1946-7 6. When the Carnegie Foundation grant that had supported the London offices of the Association ran out, he worked briefly for J. and W. Chesters Ltd., developing their interest in educational music. In 1955 he taught at Sutton Valence School, and later at various others schools in Kent. After the death of his first wife, he remarried and lived in a small village near Exeter, in Devon. It should be clear from the foregoing biographical sketch that, although le Fleming had spent most of his professional life as an educator and administrator, he was hardly what could be termed in any sense an academic. Rather, he had dedicated himself to the propagation of music not only as an activity, but as a study and a "spiritual necessity" for all, but especially for young people~something that teaches what it is that binds "by language, environment, history, common ideals, and a continuity with the past." It is this transcendent concept of nationalism and not what he has called "sublimated Englishry" that I think is clearly reflected in the form and content of le Fleming's oeuvre4 He made a significant and original contribution to music for children's voices, as well as to works for smaller choral ensembles, with and without orchestra, including an elegantly crafted group of works for the church; and his concern with the mere practicality of music~a concern not always fashionable today~is particu­ larly obvious in his choral writing.
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